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Generating Translations Automatically
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Generating Translations Automatically Liferay DXP supports 50 languages out-of-the-box. Each locale has its own language properties file containing keys for its language. When you create an...
Customizing Localization
Official Documentation
Customizing Localization Liferay ships with 55 translations, making it ideal for deployments all over the world. Sometimes, however, you must modify a translation or provide a new one. Here you can...
APIs as OSGi Services
Official Documentation
APIs as OSGi Services After you've learned what a module is and how to deploy one, you can use modules to define APIs and implement them. Liferay APIs are OSGi services, defined by Java interfaces...
Using Portlet Filters
Using Portlet Filters Portlet filters intercept requests and responses at the start of each portlet request processing phase so you can add functionality there. This makes them useful for auditing...
Overriding OSGi Services
Overriding OSGi Services Liferay's OSGi container is a dynamic environment in which services can be added, removed, or overridden as needed. This framework registers Liferay components with the...
Architecture
Official Documentation
Architecture The Liferay DXP/Portal architecture has three parts: Core: Bootstraps DXP and its frameworks. The Core provides a runtime environment for managing services, UI components, and...
Waiting for Life Cycle Events
Waiting for Life Cycle Events Liferay registers life cycle events like portal and portlet initialization into the OSGi service registry. Your OSGi classes can listen for these service registrations...
Fundamentals
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Fundamentals Liferay development projects consist primarily of simple .jar files. These contain a few extra configuration files that make them OSGi modules, but they're easily understandable by...
Bundle Classloading Flow
Bundle Classloading Flow The OSGi container searches several places for imported classes. It's important to know where it looks and in what order. Liferay DXP's classloading flow for OSGi bundles...
Overriding Module Language Translations
Overriding Module Language Translations For Liferay DXP 7.4 U4/Portal 7.4 GA8+, the Language Override tool is the recommended approach. Overriding language translations in specific applications...
Overriding JSPs
Overriding JSPs You can override JSPs completely using OSGi fragments. This approach is powerful but can make things unstable when the host module is upgraded. By overriding an entire JSP, you...
Using Servlet Filters
Using Servlet Filters Servlet filters can both pre-process requests as they arrive and post-process responses before they go to the client browser. You can apply functionality to requests and...
OSGi and Modularity
OSGi and Modularity Modularity makes writing software, especially as a team, fun! Here are some benefits to modular development on Liferay: Liferay's runtime framework is lightweight, fast, and...
Module Life Cycle
Module Life Cycle In OSGi, all components, Java classes, resources, and descriptors are deployed via modules (OSGi bundles). The MANIFEST.MF file describes the module's physical characteristics,...
Liferay Classloader Hierarchy
Liferay Classloader Hierarchy All Liferay DXP/Portal applications live in an OSGi container. DXP/Portal is a web application deployed on your application server. Its Module Framework bundles...
The Benefits of Modularity
The Benefits of Modularity Dictionary.com defines modularity as the use of individually distinct functional units, as in assembling an electronic or mechanical system. The distinct functional units...
Finding Artifacts
Official Documentation
Finding Artifacts To use external artifacts in your project, you must configure their dependencies in your build.gradle Gradle script. Before specifying an artifact as a dependency, you must first...
Configuring Dependencies
Official Documentation
Configuring Dependencies Liferay provides a container where modules can publish and consume functionality through their Java packages. Modules can leverage packages from other modules or...
Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies
Official Documentation
Resolving Third Party Library Package Dependencies An application can rely on multiple OSGi modules. Resolving their Java package dependencies can be challenging. In a perfect world, every package...
Exporting Packages
Official Documentation
Exporting Packages In OSGi, packages are private by default. You must explicitly exporting a package so other modules can import and use them. Here's how to export packages: Open your bnd.bnd...
Deploying WARs (WAB Generator)
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Deploying WARs (WAB Generator) You can create applications as Java EE-style Web Application ARchive (WAR) artifacts or as Java ARchive (JAR) OSGi bundle artifacts. Bean Portlets, PortletMVC4Spring...
Importing Packages
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Importing Packages You often find yourself in a position of needing functionality provided by another module. To access this functionality, you must import packages from other modules into your...
JARs Excluded from WABs
Official Documentation
JARs Excluded from WABs [Liferay-generated web application bundles (WABs) are stripped of third party JARs that contain packages that Liferay exports already. Deploying the same third party...
Module Projects
Official Documentation
Module Projects Liferay applications and customizations are OSGi modules: .jar files containing Java code and some extra configuration for publishing and consuming APIs. A module project comprises...
Semantic Versioning
Official Documentation
Semantic Versioning Semantic Versioning is a three tiered versioning system for incrementing version numbers based on the degree of API change made in a releasable software component. It's a...
Specifying Dependencies
Official Documentation
Specifying Dependencies You must satisfy all dependencies to compile and deploy a module successfully. After you find the dependency artifacts, add them as dependencies in your Gradle build file....
Exported Third Party Packages
Official Documentation
Exported Third Party Packages Liferay provides over one-hundred third party Java packages at run time. The com.liferay.portal.bootstrap module exports the packages by specifying individual packages...
Using an OSGi Service
Official Documentation
Using an OSGi Service Liferay APIs are readily available as OSGi services. You can access a service by creating a field of that service type and annotating the field with @Reference, like this: ...
Command Line Gogo Shell
Official Documentation
Command Line Gogo Shell If you're in a development environment, you can interact with the module framework locally from the command line. Gogo shell should only be run from the command line in...
Digital Asset Management
Official Documentation
Digital Asset Management Use Liferay’s Digital Asset Management (DAM) features to store, organize, and reuse documents, images, and other media across your site. The Documents and Media library...
Gogo Shell Commands
Official Documentation
Gogo Shell Commands The Gogo shell executes Felix Gogo basic commands and Liferay commands. The Gogo shell is accessible in the Control Panel (recommended) and from the command line. Here are some...
Developer Guide
Official Documentation
Developer Guide This guide provides comprehensive information and references to help you effectively use the Document API, understand adaptive media modules, and create video shortcut providers.
Adaptive Media Modules Reference
Official Documentation
Adaptive Media Modules Reference Adaptive Media's Modules Some modules in the Adaptive Media app are mandatory and must be enabled for Adaptive Media to function, while others can be disabled. The...
Using the Gogo Shell
Official Documentation
Using the Gogo Shell The Gogo shell provides a way to interact with the module framework. Among other things, you can Dynamically install/uninstall bundles (modules) Examine package...
Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365
Official Documentation
Enabling Document Creation and Editing with Microsoft Office 365 Liferay DXP integrates with Microsoft Office 365™ so you can create and edit documents, spreadsheets, and presentations stored in...
Enabling LibreOffice / OpenOffice Integration
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Enabling LibreOffice / OpenOffice Integration LibreOffice and OpenOffice are open source productivity suites that you can integrate with Liferay. By default Liferay includes PDFBox, which generates...
Configuring Caching for Documents and Media
Official Documentation
Configuring Caching for Documents and Media Liferay 7.3 U23+, Liferay 7.4 U21+, GA21+ By default, Documents and Media files are not cached by browsers or servers. This is because file visibility...
Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews
Official Documentation
Enabling FFmpeg for Audio and Video Previews Documents and Media provides integration with the FFmpeg multimedia framework for generating audio and video file previews. To use this integration, you...
Creating Video Shortcut Providers
Official Documentation
Creating Video Shortcut Providers Liferay DXP 7.4+ By default, Liferay's external video shortcuts support YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, and Twitch. However, you can extend this feature to support...
DevOps
Official Documentation
DevOps :::: 2 :gutter: 3 3 3 3 ::: Local Integrations Configuring Documents and Media Previews Enabling Antivirus Scanning for Uploaded Files Configuring Cache Control for Documents and Media...